Since smiling women were seen at the time as openly seductive, deceitful, drunk, boorish, or attempting to gain power, to be seen smiling in a portrait was thought of as a signal of some or all of ...

The unsmiling women refuse to submit or project ... the gravitas of portrait sessions lingered. For European aristocrats, smiling was a sign of losing face, said Vanessa Brown, a lecturer in ...

Housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, this captivating portrait draws millions of visitors each year, all eager to see the mysterious woman whose enigmatic smile has puzzled historians and art ...

From there, I draw their portraits and create the pieces ... Why don’t you smile more? Why shouldn’t women smile more? [Laughs] I smile a lot. Smiling is a very natural thing.

“Not surprisingly, early amateur portraits published in Studio Light ... Another ad shows a smiling woman standing in a field of wildflowers, with the caption "Kodak as you go." ...

Fiorina's remarks on smile frequency may have come in response ... The posters she pastes on buildings across the country feature portraits of women, arms-crossed, expressions sour, with captions ...

Named for a self-portrait of Fazlalizadeh with the message “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” the formidable portraits include sentiments meant to deter street harassment. One piece tells viewers ...

But Angus Trumble, the director of the National Portrait Gallery in ... increased over time and also that women led the way to toothy grins, on average smiling more than men did in any given ...

The art world is buzzing over a French scientist's claims that he discovered a portrait of another woman lurking beneath the top layer of the world's most famous painting—meaning the Mona Lisa ...

Women know this, because when a woman isn't smiling, people notice. Some female celebrities who don't smile often, like Kim Kardashian, have publicly commented on their choice not to smile.